NetApp StorageGRID Webscale: Automated Deployment

A few months after our first NetApp StorageGRID Webscale PoC we came back for another PoC. This time: Virtual Appliances on VMware vSphere. A perfect solution for small environments and if you already have a virtual environment. After modifying some scripts, the deployment was really easy and fast: a 5-Node cluster including Gateway- and Admin-Node in about one hour.

First of all, you need to modify the deployment scripts for your needs. Here is a working example for virtual Cluster with 5 Storage Nodes and one Gateway Node and one Admin Node. All nodes are in the same subnet for testing: